wiss

Meaning

Verb

To know; to understand.

Origin

Perhaps an alteration of wis, taken from the incorrect division of iwis from Middle English iwis, ywis, from Old English ġewis) as "I wis", which was mistaken for a verb. Perhaps from (certainly akin to) Old English witan. See wit.

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